Thank you for this. I saw The Danish Girl and it was TERRIBLE and he was laughably bad in it yet he’s pretty much a lock to be nominated. The subject matter in that movie deserves a lot better treatment than it received. Then again I wasn’t impressed with Redmayne in The Theory of Everything either so I’m probably…

Good work. That list is sobering to read. The only Acting winner where the person wasn’t a slave or played secondary role to the white people in the movie was when Denzel Washington won for playing a bad cop in Training Day.

Same here. What a tragic story. Drunks and guns are a terrible mix and even then people with guns will shoot at anyone or anything that pisses them off without even the slightest provocation.

How does this not have more stars?

Jezebel’s loss is Uproxx’s gain. I hope Uproxx treats you right.

I think the outrage would be sky high if he got off easily again. Then again knowing our justice system and rich people you’re probably right.

It was an atrocity he got the sentence he got. The judge was apparently retiring the following year and seemed not to give a fuck. She was known as a harsh sentencer an gave a 20 year sentence to a teen who killed a single person in a drunk driving accident.

The same NRA that back in the 60s helped craft gun control laws because Black Panthers started arming themselves and buying guns en masse? The NRA only gives a shit if white people are being deprived of their gun rights.

I know right? It’s like the jackasses who bought French wine back in 2003 (when France was against going into Iraq) then dumped it out into the streets. The winemakers still got their money and these idiots wasted great wine.

Agreed. McGinty is a piece of shit who abdicated his responsibility to his job and became a cheerleader for the defense. What an immoral, disgraceful coward. If he had any dignity at all he would submit his resignation tomorrow morning. His lack of any empathy for the Rice family makes him unsuitable for public…

Exactly. Leslie Jones is awesomeness personified and I’m ridiculously happy for her deserved success yet Chris Rock had to derail her profile and make it all about someone else. Most of the article comments are discussing Rock’s comments rather than Leslie Jones. Fuck off Chris Rock.

Yes thank you for this. He delivers the Weekend Update as if he’s reading off cue cards. They should have kept him as Head Writer and taken him off Weekend Update.

Isn’t that the Andy Lopez case? He was carrying an airsoft gun and wearing headphones with music on so he couldn’t hear what the police officer yelled to him. It is a disgrace his case didn’t get more attention.

No she shouldn’t have been killed but in shooting after shooting police are claiming “my life was in danger” when they shoot someone even if there is no danger. She sounds mentally ill and the police reacted the way they should with EVERYONE. Why don’t LaQuan McDonald and Quintonio LeGrier and other blacks who are…

Pretty much. What a horrible fucking statement for a grown man to make about a dead 12 year old boy. Just utterly gross and extremely disrespectful to the Rice family.

Ohio is an open carry state so technically even if the police thought he was an 18-year old kid (like they originally claimed) he had every right to have that gun. Soon after the Tamir Rice incident there was a white man in San Diego in a park waving a gun (a real gun), pointing it at scared kids and screaming…

Which is what happened in California in the 60s when The Black Panthers started carrying guns. White people panicked and lost their minds and gun control was passed.

The cop who shot him - Loehmann - was deemed incompetent by his previous police force who were about to fire him before he resigned. He claimed he joined the Cleveland PD because he wanted more “action”. Which explains him rolling up on a 12-year-old kid and shooting him dead in less than 5 seconds. It’s unbelievable…

Agreed. He openly admitted he threw the case to protect the police and didn’t do his job. How is that not a fireable or impeachable offense?

How dare black kids play in the park? Don’t they know that’s for whites only? That is basically what this prosecutor is saying. He’s blaming Tamir Rice for his own death. Is this an elected position? Can this asshole be voted out of office or is he appointed?